[Andy George]

Eugene,

whether having continuous rasterization off means that it would appear that way in the final render?

Yes having continuous rasterization off it would output at the blurry quality when rendered. You don’t need to have it on while you work just be sure and turn it back on before you render.

Andy

[Andy George]

I did run across a script that might do what you want the other day,
though I have never used it.

Here is a link to it.

https://www.redefinery.com/ae/view.php?item=rd_RenderLayers

Andy

[Andy George]

Hi John,

I think you were almost there.

Set your still image duration under preferences-import to your desired per image duration
and re-import.

Drag and drop them all like you were doing. Select all of the layers. go to
animation-keyframe assistant-sequence layers. This should allign them.

Precompose it all from there if you want a tidy bundle.

Just out of curiosity how did you get the gif sequence? If
it was from something you created yourself there might be better
format options for After Effects like a PNG PSD or Tiff sequence.

Andy

[Andy George]

Hi Brian,

Its pretty much in proportion to what you want to output and what you want to do with the image.

Say I have a 720×586 Pal comp. I know that I want to import an image and execute a push in AE from 100% to 200%.
For this instance I would need an image scaled to roughly 1440×1172 (OR (720×586)*2)

A push from 100% to 300% would require 2160×1758 image and so on.

DPI (dots per inch) has no relevance on a computer screen or Television.
Its a function of printing images to a specific size. And since you have no
control over your display size (think jumbotron in times square vs ipod display)
there is no way to calculate how many “dots per inch” you are going to need.

Unless you are printing, forget DPI entirely. After effects does not use it.

Andy
https://www.chiselindustries.com

[Andy George]

Dotan,

Try precomposing your “side” with the layer styles applied in the precomp,
and then making your new precomp 3D.

Layer styles tend to screw with your 3D stacking order in my experience.

Andy George
https://www.chiselindustries.com

[Andy George]

I would assume that the only Compression that is going to take
place to your images would be determined by the codec you use
to output your sequence. But you might want to ask someone who
knows a bit more about it. There is an imovie forum on the apple site.

https://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1307

Be sure and look into the “apply ken burns effect” to all images.
Genius little filter for this type of project-

Andy

https://www.chiselindustries.com

[Andy George]

Brandon,

A little difficult to tell without knowing what all you have going on in your
comp, but a few guesses..

Is your footage interlaced? It appears to be from the still image. You might try
de-interlacing first (compressor does a great job of this if your on a mac)
or here is a tutorial on how to do it in AE https://library.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/deinterlace.php makes accurate masking a lot easier.

In After effects in the upper right hand of your composition window is a pulldown menu.
Select “enable motion blur” so that you can see if any motion blur is having an effect on your comp while you preview. now when you preview does it still line up?

Andy

[Andy George]

Hi Pedro,

I think it’s important to understand that after effects is not a editing application. It only has a few very basic editing tools. So its going to be difficult to recreate a typical editing work flow, or even find a lot of resources on the topic.

That being said it’s certainly possible to do. What is your end product going to be? Are you looking to do any effects and composting or are you just trying to do some pans and zooms across images with transitions?
I don’t want to beat a dead horse but if the latter is the case…I could do a couple thousand photos in imovie with pans and zooms, nice transitions, Export full HD and be done before lunch. In AE it would take considerably longer.

As far as tutorials go a quick google search found this one https://production.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=177768&afterinter=true on how to perform slip edits and do some trimming.

Most of the “editing” functions are the most basic functions so any “introduction to AE” type of tutorial should get you started. Here is one at Video Copilot https://www.videocopilot.net/basic/

Best of luck
Andy

[Andy George]

Pedro,
I don’t envy you. Editing 2000 of anything in a composting application sounds like a nightmare to me-

If you have an extra $500 in your budget you might want to look into
Automatic duck. https://www.automaticduck.com/products/
Do your editing in Avid and then export to AE for effects and composting.

Final Cut or Adobe Premiere? Both of these applications have free
work flows to move projects from the editor to AE

I cant speak to the Premier workflow as I have never used it. I believe it is a new feature
in CS4.

For FCP you can use this free workflow https://www.creative-workflow-hacks.com/2007/04/15/final-cut-pro-to-after-effects-scripting-without-the-hassle/ Not as fancy as automatic duck but you could
at least get your stills into a sequence to work on your timing before going into AE.

A script like sequencelayers.jsx avaialable here https://www.nabscripts.com/downloads_en.html
might also be helpfull if you do need to do the whole project in AE

Andy George

[Andy George]

Hi Jim,

Have you considered using an expression to link your focus distance
to a null object and then animate your null to create the rack?

Here is a link that explains it-

https://dev.xscriptorium.com/node/129

Andy George